Pakistan vs Zimbabwe 2nd T20 will be played on the same ground as the first T20 on 29th September. Now the visitors are in high spirits after winning the first match of the series. But it was no way an easy win for the Pakistan team, the hosts Zimbabwe gave them a tough time. At one point, it looked like that the Zimbabwe team is going to win the match. But thanks to inexperience and some good bowling Pakistan won the first match. But the first match also showed that this is going to be a series between two almost equal teams. It will not be easy for the Pak team to win the series. If Zimbabwe can play like this in the second game, then they have a good chance of making a great comeback in this all-important series. It is not late; all they have to do is to keep their nerves calm. Today they are not supposed to lose the match, but at the end their batsmen were unable to make some right decisions. The Pak bowlers were good, but the bad shots played by the Zimbabwe batsmen made their job much easier. This is something that Zimbabwe team management needs to talk about.

Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi won the toss and elected to bat first. This was an obvious decision since Harare wicket is great for the batsmen at the first couple of hours. It is also a well-known fact that it is not easy for any team to chase a big total in this wicket. But for some reason yesterday wicket was little surprising. The bowlers had the advantage from the beginning, and both Pakistan openers Ahmed Shehzad and Mukhtar Ahmed had a tough time hitting the balls. They never looked comfortable against the Zimbabwe pace attack. Chamu Chibhabha was especially impressive and he eventually got both openers’ wickets. He also picked out the wicket of number 3 batsman Sohaib Maqsood. His spell was the most vital spell of Pakistan innings. Shoaib Malik came at number 4 and he was steady as usual. But he was not at his attacking best, he scored 35, but his team wants more from his bat. He also got bowled out, and that delivery from Sean Williams was not the best. If Pakistan wants to win series then Shoaib needs to be at his best form like he was in at the Sri Lanka series. Shoaib needs to score at least a 50 in Pakistan vs Zimbabwe 2nd T20, anyway after Shoaib was out, the rest of the batsmen failed to do anything special and Pakistan was only able to put 136 runs in 20 over with the loss of 8 wickets.

This was a really small total even for a 20 over game, so commentators thought that Zimbabwe team will be able to successfully chase the total. But from the beginning they were losing wickets, one of their openers was out for zero. Imad Wasim took 4 wickets and later on he was declared the Man Of the match. However, in the middle Zimbabwe put up a good fight thanks to their captain Elton Chigumbura, he scored a quick 31 and if he was there still till the end then Zimbabwe would have won this match. Anyway in Pakistan vs Zimbabwe 2nd T20 match hopefully the hosts will not repeat the same mistakes they did. That game needs to be a high scoring game and the spectators want some huge sixes which were missing at the first game. So will Pakistan be the series winner again? Let’s wait and watch.